Results 1-20 of 136 for jobpath speaker:Regina Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (10 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: Jobpath is an employment activation service to support unemployed jobseekers to secure and sustain full time paid employment or self-employment. Two companies, Turas Nua and Seetec are contracted by my Department to deliver the JobPath services. Since 1 June 2018, it is open to persons attending a JobPath provider to take up a position on a Community Employment (CE) scheme on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (2 Jul 2019)

Regina Doherty: The primary purpose of JobPath is to provide a case management based employment advice and counseling service to long-term unemployed jobseekers. This is the group of jobseekers facing the most significant barriers to secure and sustain full-time employment. Between July 2015 and May 2019, some 227,590 jobseekers had commenced their engagement period with the JobPath service. Of this...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (1 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 610 to 613, inclusive, together. The primary purpose of JobPath is to provide a case management based, employment advice and counselling service to long term unemployed jobseekers. Between July 2015 and September 2019, some 241,346 jobseekers had commenced their engagement period with the JobPath service, see table 1.  Of this number, 52% were...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (26 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: Participants with JobPath receive intensive individual support over a period of up to 12 months to help them tackle barriers to employment and to find jobs. As part of the JobPath service each person is assigned a personal advisor who assesses their skills, qualifications and experience with a particular focus on identifying appropriate training and educational interventions in the context...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (2 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware the primary goal of my Department’s activation services including the JobPath service, is to move people from full-time and part-time unemployment to full-time and sustained employment. JobPath is a payment by results model and all set-up and day-to-day operational costs are borne by the companies. The companies are paid on the basis of performance and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (3 Apr 2019)

Regina Doherty: The JobPath providers are obliged to provide a baseline level of support to each participant but are free to adapt that support in individual cases, provided that it is not unduly onerous. The JobPath contracts provide that a person should not have to travel more than 60 minutes in normal circumstances to attend an appointment. Where a person has transport difficulties, the JobPath Company...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (6 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: As the Deputy will be aware, customers of my Department who are engaged with the JobPath service have, from 1st June 2018, the option of taking up a placement on CE and Tús while continuing to engage with the JobPath service. This change ensures that jobseekers can benefit from the job-seeking support of the JobPath service while also availing of a part-time work placement provided by...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (26 Sep 2018)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is designed to support people who are long term unemployed to obtain and sustain employment in the open labour market. The JobPath companies have no role in selection of jobseekers for referral to the service. My Department selects clients for the JobPath service by means of a random selection process and protocols for selection currently preclude the selection of anyone who has...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes Data (26 Mar 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...is very aware of the need to have adequate data protection policies, procedures and structures in place in line with current data protection legislation. My Department’s contracts with the JobPath providers are in compliance with all relevant legislation and any information shared is contractually based and necessary to provide a service. All contracts in place are governed by...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (6 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: The primary goal of my Department’s activation services, including the JobPath service, is to move people from full-time and part-time unemployment to full-time and sustained employment. From 1st June this year all long term jobseekers who are currently engaged with the JobPath service and those who may be referred in future, have the option of applying for Community Employment...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (13 Nov 2018)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is an employment activation service that supports people who are long-term unemployed and those most at risk of becoming long-term unemployed to secure and sustain paid employment. Jobseekers retain their jobseeker's payment and remain on the Live Register while engaged with JobPath unless they are placed in employment. Jobseekers may be supported through the service for up to 30...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (18 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...a range of activation supports catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers and those most distant from the labour market to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. These supports include the JobPath service, the Local Employment Service, Job Clubs, Tús and Community Employment (CE). The primary purpose of JobPath is to provide a case management based, employment advice and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (8 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: The primary purpose of JobPath is to provide a case management based, employment advice and counselling service to long term unemployed jobseekers. Between July 2015 and September 2019, some 241,346 jobseekers had commenced their engagement period with the JobPath service. Of this number, 52% were unemployed for over three years. This group, in particular, faces significant barriers when...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (29 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...’s activation service and this obligation applies irrespective of whether the service is provided by the Department’s own case officers or those advisers employed by external contractors such as the JobPath providers. Currently, once a jobseeker is referred to JobPath, they are required to complete the requisite time with the service and will not be referred to a Work...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (20 Mar 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...are also required to engage with the Department’s activation services whether the service is provided internally by an Intreo case officer or externally by one of the contracted providers e.g. JobPath providers and Local Employment Service providers. The Social Welfare (Consolidated) Act 2005, as amended, specifies that participation in activation meetings is mandatory. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Data (13 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 218 and 219 together. As the Deputy will be aware the JobPath activation service is to help long term unemployed jobseekers to find sustainable full time work. For the purposes of the departments activation services all long-term unemployed jobseekers on the Live Register, aged between 18 and 61 years old inclusive, are categorised into groups based...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (13 May 2020)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is a part of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection’s activation service the key objective of which is to assist jobseekers of all skills and abilities to secure full-time sustainable employment. All Jobseekers on the Live Register must be capable of; available for and actively seeking full time employment, they are also required to engage with the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (2 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is a service which supports people who are long-term unemployed to secure and sustain full time paid employment.  Two companies, Seetec and Turas Nua, have been contracted by my Department to deliver the service.  The JobPath employment service commenced in 2015 and, under the terms of the contracts signed with the providers, was to run for at least six years comprising...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (24 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: JobPath is one of a range of activation supports, including schemes such as Community Employment (CE) and Tús, catering for long-term unemployed jobseekers. Referral to JobPath is by random selection and is generally for a 52-week period. Jobseekers who are already participating with the JobPath service will not be referred to Tús as they can only participate with one activation...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes (4 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: The customer was referred to the Job Club service on 12thJune 2017 and attended in September 2017. The customer was also referred to the JobPath service on 17thJune 2017, and agreed a personal progression plan with the JobPath provider on 6thJuly 2017. Having been referred to JobPath which provides an intensive 12 month programme of support for the Long Term Unemployed the customer’s...